1. A Worldwide Test of the Predictive Validity of Ideal Partner Preference-Matching
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Paul Wolfe Eastwick, Jehan Sparks, Eli Finkel, Eva Meza, Matus Adamkovic, Peter Adu, Ting Ai, Aderonke A. Akintola, Laith Al-Shawaf, Denisa Apriliawati, Patrícia Arriaga, Benjamin Aubert-Teillaud, Gabriel Baník, Krystian Barzykowski, Carlota Batres, Katherine Baucom, Elizabeth Z. Beaulieu, Maciej Behnke, Natalie Butcher, Deborah Yazhini Charles, Jane M. Chen, Jeong Eun Cheon, Phakkanun Chittham, Patrycja Chwiłkowska, Chin Wen Cong, Lee Copping, Nadia Saraí Corral-Frías, Vera Cubela Adoric, Hongfei Du, Michael Ibukun Ehinmowo, Daniela A. Escribano, Natalia Espinosa, Francisca Expósito, Gilad Feldman, Raquel Meister Ko. Freitag, Martha Frias-Armenta, Albina Gallyamova, Omri Gillath, Biljana Gjoneska, Theofilos Gkinopoulos, Dmitry Grigoryev, Agata Groyecka-Bernard, Gul Gunaydin, Ruby D. Ilustrisimo, Emily Impett, Peder Mortvedt Isager, Pavol Kačmár, Young Hoon Kim, Mirosław Kocur, Marta Kowal, Maatangi Krishna, Paul Danielle Labor, Jackson G. Lu, Marc Yancy Lucas, Wojciech W. Małecki, Klara Malinakova, Zdenek Meier, Michał Misiak, Amy Muise, Erita Narhetali, Dyna Nguyen, Lukas Novák, Asil Ali Özdoğru, Haeyoung Gideon Park, Mariola Paruzel-Czachura, Zoran Pavlović, Marcell Püski, Gianni Ribeiro, S. Craig Roberts, Jan Philipp Röer, Ivan Ropovik, Robert M Ross, Ezgi Sakman, Cristina Salvador, Emre Selcuk, Shayna Skakoon-Sparling, Agnieszka Sorokowska, Piotr Sorokowski, Ognen Spasovski, Sarah C. E. Stanton, Suzanne Stewart, Viren Swami, Barnabas Szaszi, Kaito Takashima, Petr Tavel, Julian Tejada, Eric Tu, Jarno Tuominen, David C. Vaidis, Leigh Ann Vaughn, Laura Villanueva-Moya, Dian Wisnuwardhani, Yuki Yamada, Fumiya Yonemitsu, Radka Zidkova, Kristýna Živná, and Nicholas Alvaro Coles
- Abstract
Ideal partner preferences (i.e., ratings of the desirability of attributes like attractiveness or intelligence) are the source of numerous foundational findings in the interdisciplinary literature on human mating. Recently, research on the predictive validity of ideal partner preference-matching (i.e., do people positively evaluate partners who match versus mismatch their ideals?) has become mired in several problems. For one, articles exhibit discrepant analytic and reporting practices. Furthermore, different findings emerge across laboratories worldwide, perhaps because they sample different relationship contexts and/or populations. The current project—partnered with the Psychological Science Accelerator—can bring clarity to this literature. This registered report uses a highly powered design across multiple world regions to calculate preference-matching effect sizes and variability estimates for all relevant analytic tests. It also examines effects in different relationship contexts and subsamples (e.g., attraction, established relationships, recently formed relationships).
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- 2023